THE EDITOR, Sir:
ON PAGE A5 of the issue of The Gleaner of Saturday June 1, there appeared a letter by one Ricardo Johnson of Knock-patrick, Manchester, a taxi operator, which tells of the extreme hardship and suffering imposed on him and by extension on his poor and struggling family by a member of the police force and Judges in the Mandeville RM Court.
Mr. Johnson has appeared in court some five times on a trivial matter, of which he claims that he is not guilty.
Mr. Johnson is suffering financially, mentally and otherwise because of the sheer incompetence of a policeman.
Prominent attorney-at-Law, Mr. Owen Crosbie, has quite rightly asked for the dismissal of the case. I pray that his call will eventually be accepted.
The report of this case stands in stark contrast to the case referred to on the front page of the self-same issue of The Gleaner where judges of the Court of Appeal - Justice Donald Bingham, Paul Harrison and Algeron Smith, have extended understanding, mercy and justice to one Everald Dunkley of Oracabessa, St. Mary, and have had him released from prison. Jamaica will be definitely the better for persons of this calibre and outlook in its judicial system.
Let them be emulated.
I am, etc.,
HENRY MARTIN
Montego Bay
St. James
